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Topic: Rewind Problem
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Chip Gelmini
Phenomenal Film Handler
Posts: 1733
From: Brooksville, FL
Registered: Jun 2003
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posted November 06, 2004 10:37 PM
There is a Dr Demento song about the Starship Enterprise that answers your problem perfectly. The lyrics went something like, (chorus) "always going forward because they can never find reverse"
Well Dan you have found reverse but it doesn't seem to go that well.
As these projectors are used very little for many years, and for most of the time when they are used they go forward mode only, problems like this are not surprising.
May I suggest as I run my films, your next investment should be a pair of hand crank rewinds. Get a pair of 16mm or even 35, and get the brass adapters that easily convert to super 8 from either format. Plan to spend about $200.00 or more to do this. You'll be glad you did.
As for the machine adjutsment...use it as is, but no rewinding. Or maybe find someone who can fix it for you at a good price. I assume that you are aware of the high speed rewind lever above the lens (slight yellow/orange) that gives it alitle torque in reverse mode. If you are not using that lever then it would certainly slow down near the finish of rewind. If you are using the lever and you are having a slowing down, then yes, you would need repair.
Maybe this isn't what you wanted to hear me say, but I grew up a projectionist. Long before I became one as a trade, I helped out in the booth at my Aunt's theater. I was probably 8 to 13 years old. I did most rewinding for Bill the projectionist, and it was all by hand.
Chip Gelmini
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